The Power BI Analysis Services Connector can be used to connect from the Power BI service to your on premises tabular Analysis Services models.
In this blogpost I will look into the security and authentication possibilities that the SSAS Connector offers. Dynamic row-level security based on the Power BI user name to an on premises SSAS Tabular ...

From Red-Gate website you can download (for free) the ebook SQL Server Hardware written by Glenn Berry (@GlennAlanBerry).
This ebook will provide the fundamental knowledge and resources you need to make intelligent decisions about choice, and optimal installation and configuration, of SQL Server hardware, operating system and the SQL Server ...

I have the privilege of being selected to fill two slots this weekend at #SQLSaturday349 in Salt Lake City. The venue is simultaneously hosting the Big Mountain Data event.
My talks are:
To the Cloud, Infinity, & Beyond: Top 10 Lessons Learned at MSIT
&
Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2014: Flipping the DW /faster ...

Hi friends,
I know a lot of you regularly read my blog either on my home page at KevinEKline.com, on SQLBlog.com, or one of the locations where it's syndicated. And you may also regularly take in my content on SQLSentry.TV or my monthly column on Database Trends & Applications magazine.
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Have you heard of the monthly print and web magazine Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)? Did you know I'm the regular columnist covering SQL Server? For the past six months, I've been writing a series of articles about database benchmarking culminating in the latest article discussing my three favorite database ...

I've been keen on MySQL ever since I first started using it heavily more than a decade ago. In fact, I liked it well enough to include it as one of the four main database platforms, over and above the ANSI-ISO SQL standard, in my popular book SQL in a Nutshell. However, with the advent of NoSQL data platforms in the last few years, ...

I had the good fortune to overhead some of my good friends and fellow MVPs discussing the process of data modeling for business intelligence systems. So what are the industry standard approaches for modeling dimensional data modelling?The short answer is that Kimball's dimensional modeling is the most widely adopted standard for any sort of ...

Ever since returning from the UK for the SQLBits conference, I've been snowed under a mountain of action items. I've got such a backlog of things to get done, emails to answer, and family to not ignore that I'm starting to feel really guilty. So with that in mind, I wanted to whip out a quick blog post to let you know I'm ...

“Case Studies” are a great tool when you’re evaluating a platform. Having evidence that other companies have deployed Windows Azure, in addition to how they did it, is a good way to plan your own deployments or even just evaluate whether Windows Azure would be a good fit. And we have several case studies you can examine here: ...